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  • March 2020

  • Tue 31

    Italian/American Women Playwrights

    March 31, 2020 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    Join us for a fun and exciting evening of theater by Italian/American Women Playwrights. Featured are Denise Chiarella’s Nike and Mona; Nicole Pandolfo’s My Father…

    Free
  • April 2020

  • Mon 6

    Nadina LaSpina Reads from Such a Pretty Girl: A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride

    April 6, 2020 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Such a Pretty Girl charts Nadina LaSpina’s life from her childhood in Sicily to her adolescence and youth in the United States to her activism…

    Free
  • Wed 15

    Creating the New Right Ethnic in 1970s America: The Intersection of Anger and Nostalgia

    April 15, 2020 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Richard Moss Harrisburg Area Community College This work analyzes the “New Ethnicity” of the 1970s as a way of understanding the United States’ political turn…

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  • Fri 24

    Annual Conference—Italian Borderlands: Restrictions, Breaches, Encounters

    April 24, 2020 @ 8:00 am – April 25, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

    Borders can be concrete parameters, and they can also be metaphorical markers. Either way, the border as a political, economic, cultural, and personal site, one…

    Free
  • May 2020

  • Mon 4

    Unwanted: Italian and Jewish Mobilization against Restrictive Immigration Laws, 1882–1965

    May 4, 2020 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Maddalena Marinari Gustavus Adolphus College In the late nineteenth century, millions of Italians and Eastern European Jews left their countries to take advantage of the…

    Free
  • Wed 13

    Joanna Clapps Herman Reads from When I Am Italian: Quando sono italiana

    May 13, 2020 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    “My Italian village in America was in Waterbury, Connecticut.” With this sentence, Joanna Clapps Herman raises this book’s central question: To what extent can a…

    Free
  • April 2021

  • Mon 5

    Virtual Conference, Italian Borderlands: Restrictions, Breaches, Encounters

    April 5, 2021 @ 2:00 pm – April 21, 2021 @ 3:30 pm

    This year’s conference will be entirely virtual. Each weekday from April 5 to April 21, 2021, one presentation or panel will take place at 2pm…

    Free
  • October 2021

  • Thu 14

    Exhibition Online Roundtable Conversation

    October 14, 2021 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    An Intellectual Between Two Worlds: Uguccione Ranieri di Sorbello (1906–1969) The exhibition will be accompanied by a Zoom roundtable conversation hosted by Prof. Anthony Tamburri,…

    Free
  • Mon 18

    Italian American Heritage Month: Celebrating Contributions and Confronting the Past

    October 18, 2021 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

    Monday, October 18 1:00 pm to 3:00pm Live on Microsoft Teams; link below Italian immigrants have left a lasting impression on this country, contributing to everything from literature,…

    Free
  • Tue 26

    Italics

    October 26, 2021 @ 9:30 pm – 10:30 pm

    This second special edition of Italics features Fabio Finotti, director of the Italian Cultural Institute in New York, as well as Cav. Joseph Sciame, president…

    Free
  • Wed 27

    Italian Heritage and Culture Committee Dante Lecture Series: Florentina Russo

    October 27, 2021 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    “Teaching Dante” Teaching and meeting the skills of undergraduate curriculum: Dante as a vehicle for good undergraduate readership. Prof. Russo explains how basic skills in…

    Free
  • November 2021

  • Wed 3

    Italian Heritage and Culture Committee Dante Lecture Series: Alessandro Barbero

    November 3, 2021 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

    “A Conversation: Dante Today” Alessandro Barbero in conversation with Anthony Julian Tamburri The author of numerous books and essays, Alessandro Barbero is both a novelist…

    Free
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John D. Calandra Italian American Institute

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New York, NY 10036

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